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Founder of French positivism. Invented the term sociology.
Nationality: French. -
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Founding mother of sociology. Translated Auguste Comte's Les Cours de Philosophie Positive.
Nationality: English. -
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Created the Conflict Theory. "the history of all existing society is a history of class struggle"
Nationality: German. -
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Views and ideas about evolulution (social evolution). Coined the phrase "survival of the fittest".
Nationality: Canadian. -
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Father of sociology. Made sociology a science.
Nationality: French. -
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Social worker. Won the Novel Peace Prize of 1931. Worked in the Hull House.
Nationality: American. -
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Also considered as the father of sociology. Came up with the four different types of social action.
Nationality: German. -
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Contributed much to our understanding of racial colonialism, racial enslavement, and placed the study of African Americans into two categories.
Nationality: Ghana. -
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Taught sociology at the University of Maryland, Columbia University, and was professor of sociology at Columbia.
Nationality: American.
